Rain and Hail Insurance Service, headquartered in Johnston, Iowa, is an industry leader in crop insurance in the United States.
The feature was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the Arrol-Johnston car, which was adapted for use by Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition (1907–09) and was the first mechanical transport used in Antarctica.
The following year in 1982, again at short notice, he embarked on an Atlantic crossing aboard Sea Falcon, the boat of English sailor and navigator, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston.
He was born on December 8, 1856 in Baltimore, the son of the physician Christopher Johnston (1822-1891), a professor of surgery at the University of Maryland and the discoverer of Johnston's organ, and Sarah Lucretia Clay (1835-1879).
Possibly the strangest yacht race ever run, it culminated in a successful non-stop circumnavigation by just one competitor, Robin Knox-Johnston, who became the first person to sail the clipper route single-handed and non-stop.
The Eric went on to become very influential in ocean sailing, with boats such as Vito Dumas's Lehg II and Robin Knox-Johnston's Suhaili making notable circumnavigations, the latter becoming the first boat to be sailed single-handed and non-stop around the world.
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston, married name Elizabeth Johnston, economist and advisor
Among her many accomplishments at the Ministry, Parr-Johnston was involved in the secret extraction of six American Embassy workers who escaped to the safety of the Canadian Embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis.
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In 1979, Parr-Johnston won a political appointment as the Chief of Staff to Ron Atkey, the Canadian Minister of Employment and Immigration during the short-lived Conservative minority government.
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Elizabeth Parr-Johnston, CM (born Elizabeth H. Parr in 1939 in New York, NY) is the Managing Partner of Parr-Johnston Consultants, an economic policy consultancy based in Chester Basin, Nova Scotia.
Rachel Campbell-Johnston for The Times (paywall), in a positive review, called the exhibition a complicated, probing, and philosophically fascinating show, exposing a society darkly sinister.
Originally, the freeway was supposed to end in Johnston, Rhode Island at the Interstate 95-Interstate 195 connector (now the Route 6-10 Connector).
Dina Manfredini, Italian-American supercentenarian and the oldest person in the world from 4–17 December 2012 (born 4 April 1897)
In 1790 the Belknap School, the first public school in the town, was founded.
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Incorporated on March 6, 1759, Johnston was named for the colonial attorney general, Augustus Johnston.
My car it has been commandeered, by the rebels at Dunluce?"
In 2005, he participated in the VELUX 5 Oceans Race in his boat, Spirit of Yukoh, and placed second, beating notable sailors such as Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and Mike Golding.
One person who guessed at the exhibition's nature was The Times art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston.
Born in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England he was the son of Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnston and his wife Frances Ellen Bury Campbell-Johnston (née Paliser).
The 20th century when Falmouth was a jumping off point for D-Day and the first and last port of call for sailors like Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man to sail solo around the world, and Ellen MacArthur who broke the solo round the world sailing record having left from, and returned to the museum
In 1996 Robin established the first Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and has since worked with the Clipper Ventures company as Chairman to progress the race to higher levels every year.
His role as a patriarch through the acquisition of Scottish lands allowed the Johnston surname to spread through areas other than just the lowlands.
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At the end of the 1999–00 season, having not featured for Sunderland in the entire campaign, Johnston moved to Rangers on a free transfer, scoring on his debut in a Champions League qualifying match against FBK Kaunas.
By Reingard M. Nischik; Sam Shepard; Basil Johnston; Tom Clark; Richard Brautigan; Jayne Anne Phillips; T Coraghessan Boyle; Ray Bradbury; William Saroyan; Charles Johnson
As Johnston withdrew again, skirmishing erupted at Adairsville on May 17 and more general fighting on Johnston's Cassville line May 18–19.
The HUD Secretary at the time, Jack Kemp, also endorsed Johnston.
Johnston has also played on the NBC Poker After Dark Series, most recently in 2008 among some of his fellow World Series of Poker Main Event Champions.
He is best known for his books on American music - Harry Partch: a biography (Yale University Press, 1998) and Ben Johnston: Maximum Clarity and other writings on music (University of Illinois Press, 2006), both of which were recipients of the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP.
Clarence Woods Johnston, M.C., M.D. (November 19, 1888 - October 13, 1949) was the fourteenth mayor of the Canadian Village of Elkhorn.
During summer Dave collaborated with Funkagenda for a remix on Bat For Lashes' "Daniel", while with Johnston they produced a remix for The Crystal Method's "Black Rainbows", as well as a song for BT's forthcoming album and for newcomer JD Webb.
Kamakahi launched his solo career in 1996, releasing his first slack key guitar CD Pua'ena, (Glow Brightly) co-produced by Howard Johnston and pianist George Winston, under Dancing Cat Records.
He has written a number of plays including De insomnio y media noche, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2006 under the title On Insomnia and Midnight (English translation by David Johnston).
In June 2000, Natallie Evans (born October 1971) and Howard Johnston (born November 1976) who had met while working at Virgin Mobile in Wiltshire became engaged.
Johnston and fellow musicians Jay Moran, James "Pie" Cowan, Duke Erikson, and Butch Vig perform occasional shows as a covers band called "The Know-it-All Boyfriends".
In 1993, Johnston and Edwards collaborated with writer Derek Raymond on the Dora Suarez album and associated multimedia performance at the National Film Theatre the following year, based on Raymond's novel I Was Dora Suarez.
Pitt resigned as governor in 1735 with a considerable fortune, purchased what later became known as Orleans House Twickenham from the estate of James Johnston who died in 1737 and bought in January 1740 burgages and freeholds from Sir William Lowther which with Lord Galway's interest gave complete control of the Pontefract seat.
McCoy, his son John, his daughter Delilah and her missionary husband Johnston Lykins, worked together as missionaries to the Shawnee and Lenape (Delaware), following them to what is now Kansas City, Missouri, on the border of Indian Territory and near their reservations.
In 1908, Johnston suggested creating a preparatory agricultural and industrial school, along the lines of the Tuskegee School in the USA for young blacks.
Johnston was born in Church Hill, Mississippi in 1843, the son of a local attorney and cotton planter.
Born in Dublin, to the Irish actor/director Shelah Richards and the playwright Denis Johnston, a cousin of the late actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith, Johnston was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and currently lives in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
John Lawson Johnston (1839- November 24, 1900) was the creator of Bovril.
Blakely Island, part of the San Juan Islands in Washington state, and Port Blakely were named by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838-1842, in honor of Johnston Blakeley.
The 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory by Robert Skimin imagines a scenario in which Johnston is left in command during the Atlanta Campaign.
Kenly, North Carolina, town in Johnston and Wilson counties, North Carolina, United States
Paola Windsor speaks seven languages, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and at Wycombe Abbey, where she was William Johnston Yapp Scholar.
The film is based on the book by William Lindsay White, relating the true story of Dr. Albert Chandler Johnston, a graduate of Rush Medical College whose family passed for white while living in New Hampshire.
The town, which was originally called Johnston Station, had its beginnings in the 1840s when the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad established a stop referred to as "Four and a Half".
Following the departure of Jay Farrar in May, 1994, the remaining members of Uncle Tupelo, including Johnston, Ken Coomer, and John Stirratt, formed the band Wilco under the leadership of Jeff Tweedy.
With a Heckler & Koch 91, Roszko shot and killed Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constables Peter Schiemann, Anthony Gordon, Lionide Johnston, and Brock Myrol as the officers were executing a property seizure on the farm.
Audrey Lawson-Johnston, the last living survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915
Johnston was a participate on the show Australia's Got Talent with a group called Meriden Rhythmix, they performed routines of rhythmic gymnastics and made it to the semi-finals before being eliminated.
In front of the palace, Johnston installed a decorative portico, a gift sent from England to Brazil by Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland.
TSR recorded two album 1990s "From The From" and 1992's "Scram", the later produced by Mark Spencer, guitarist for Lisa Loeb, Freedy Johnston and Blood Oranges.
The type section was defined in 1994 by Meijer and Johnston in the "Devil's Gap" section south of Mount Costigan of the Palliser Range, north of Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park.
Ronald Joseph Rabin (born May 16, 1932) is a Republican state senator in the state of North Carolina, representing the 12th district, encompassing Harnett, Johnston, Lee Counties.
The guest lecturers include Professor Aubrey Manning, a distinguished zoologist and broadcaster, Gerry Johnston, director of Special Effects Ireland, Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stephen Attenborough of Virgin Galactic and Patrick Collison, Irish Young Scientist of the Year winner 2005.
Michael of Scarborough was a ship of the Atlantic that was set to transport Scottish prisoners to the Thames, so that they could be transported by Ralph Williamson to Plantations of America and was mastered in 1678 by Edward Johnston.
The Angel and Daniel Johnston – Live at the Union Chapel is a 2008 film of Daniel Johnston's concert performance at the Union Chapel, Islington on 12 July 2007.
By 1956, Johnston had established Johnny Johnston Jingles Ltd., which was responsible for hundreds of advertising jingles in the early years of British commercial television, including "A million housewives every day pick up a can of beans and say - Beanz Meanz Heinz!", "You can be sure of Shell", and the first ever colour TV commercial in Britain, for Birds Eye peas in 1969.
Eventually, after a raid on the hospital by the Luftwaffe, Gonin challenges Johnston's competence, calling him a "pen-pusher", but he has loyal friends who point to his past bravery.
George Green and Ted Johnston arrest Sonny and Wanda and leave, but Lahey finds the money falling out of the car and tries to chase the boys to capture them.
WDDD-FM, a radio station (107.3 FM) licensed to Johnston City, Illinois, United States
The Port Brae Bar pub in Kirkcaldy was run by his son Dean until a dispute with the Belhaven Brewery led to the pub being boarded up, locking Johnston's collection of memorabilia inside.
Similarly Johnston has written and recorded all vocal parts for Sleepthief, Delerium, and Above & Beyond on their singles "Good For Me", "Alchemy", "No One On Earth", "You Got To Go", and "Love Is Not Enough" on the record label Anjunabeats.